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Saturday, 4 March 2017

US navy denied attacking German navy according to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 12 July 1941

An item dated Washington, USA 11th reported that colonel Knox (1) and admiral Stark (2) denied for the navy commission of the Senate the published accusations that the US Navy attacked the German Kriegsmarine.

Notes
1. The William Franklin Knox (1 January 1874 Boston, Massachusetts, USA-28 April 1944 Washington, D.C.). Secretary of the Navy 11 July 1940-28 April 1944? He had the rank of major in th US navy.
2. Harold Rainsford Stark (12 November 1880 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA-20 August 1972 Washington, D.C.), between 1 August 1939-26 March 1942 Chief of Naval Operations, served in the US navy between 1899-1946 ending in the rank of 4 stars admiral.

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My father (Ron) and I (Alexander) are doing research in the topic navies and trading companies in the period 1500-present. My mother Karin helped my father early 1980's with research and nowadays she is almost daily photographing the ships passing on the river Schelde.
My father started his research more as 40 years ago. First he was interested in the Dutch navy and the navies in the Second World War , later in the period 19th century-present and about 20 years he started his research in the topic navies 1500-1860, in fact the era of the sailing warships including the galleys and the trading companies like the Dutch E.I.C. and the W.I.C.
My self, I’m interested in the topic navies 1860-present especially Russian built warships and Dutch warships and further more sailing ships over the whole period.
Together we are busy with photographing, drawing and doing research in archives, literature and on the web trying to collect every kind of information and sharing that with others without commercial thoughts just because we are ship lovers and fond of naval history.